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<span class=large>AMOS</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Israel shall be sifted among all nations—In the last days, they will be gathered again into their own land, and it shall become productive.
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I saw</span> the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 16: 9.">slay</a> the last of them with the sword: he that <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 28: 1; Amos 2: 14.">fleeth</a> of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
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Though they dig into <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 139: 8 (8-9).">hell</a>, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
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And though they <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 12: 10; Alma 12: 14.">hide</a> themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 10.">evil</a>, and not for good.
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And the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts <i>is</i> he that toucheth the land, and it shall <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 101: 25 (23-25).">melt</a>, and all that dwell therein shall <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 8: 8.">mourn</a>: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as <i>by</i> the flood of Egypt.
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<i>It is</i> he that buildeth his <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 1: 33.">stories</a> in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 5: 8; Moses 2: 7 (6-7); Abr. 4: 9 (9-10).">waters</a> of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> his name.
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<i>Are</i> ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?  and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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Behold, the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 34: 15; D&C 1: 1; D&C 38: 7; D&C 67: 2.">eyes</a> of the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> <i>are</i> upon the sinful kingdom, and I will <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 5: 33.">destroy</a> it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/9/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 30: 11; 2 Ne. 3: 3 (2-4); 2 Ne. 6: 11 (10-11); 2 Ne. 20: 20 (20-21).">destroy</a> the house of Jacob, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For, lo, I will command, and I will <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">sift</a> the house of <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> among all nations, like as <i>corn</i> is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/9/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mal. 3: 6.">fall</a> upon the earth.
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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB confront.">prevent</a> us.
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&#182; In that day will I raise up the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/11a" mark="a" type="C" title="Acts 15: 16 (15-17); TG Temple.">tabernacle</a> of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
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That they may <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 17; 2 Ne. 24: 2 (1-2).">possess</a> the remnant of <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 34: 5; Jer. 49: 17 (7-22); Ezek. 25: 14 (12-14); Obad. 1: 18 (8, 18-19, 21).">Edom</a>, and of all the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/9/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>, which are called by my name, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that doeth this.
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Behold, the days come, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 8: 22.">soweth</a> seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="3 Ne. 26: 3; Morm. 9: 2.">melt</a>.
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And I will bring again the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 2: 7; 3 Ne. 16: 16 (11-20).">captivity</a> of my people of <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">Israel</a>, and they shall <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/9/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 77: 15; D&C 84: 3 (2-5); D&C 101: 18; D&C 103: 11.">build</a> the <sup>d</sup><a href="amos/9/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 10 (8-15).">waste</a> cities, and inhabit <i>them;</i> and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/9/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 55: 5.">plant</a> them upon their <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/9/15b" mark="b" type="C" title="D&C 77: 15; TG Promised Lands.">land</a>, and they shall <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/9/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="3 Ne. 20: 29.">no</a> more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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